I have a reputation for trashing on Kickstarter products, but this one is near and dear to my EMI-induced heart palpitations.

The backstory: A group of students at MITERS have been working on a singing Tesla Coil kit. Having witnessed and supported small aspects of its development through this whole year, I have to sing (via plasma) the praises of the level of design and engineering that’s gone into it.

It’s now live on Kickstarter and has already made its way onto Mashable.

oneTesla also has an official website. Everybody go coil!

I don’t know why this hasn’t been all over the internet, but it’s huge and in my opinion shows great promise and is a boon for the future of personal fabrication.

The MEAM waterjet was a Mechanical Engineering senior design class (not unlike our 2.009 but 2 semesters) which produced a functional abrasive waterjet cutter for under $10,000. No matter how proof-of-concept it is, waterjetting for under $10,000.

Maybe I’m just so into waterjetting that only I find this amazing. Maybe I’m just super excited that there exists a potential for DIY waterjets as much as there is for DIY 3d printers and DIY laser cutters. Metal is the last frontier of these hobby class fabrication devices. Nothing can really do metal yet.

Or maybe I’m just miffed that my own bad waterjetting ideas haven’t made it beyond chicken scratch status on sheets of crusty paper.

Yet.

Here’s the team’s whitepaper on the machine’s design process. There’s no videos of the thing, nor really any good pictures. As far as I’m concerned, that’s a documentation fail!